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00:00Frank Paris, he was murdered. Killed in a hotel.
00:07It was Stefan Leonida. He wasn't the killer.
00:11I want you to read the book. If you can see what she saw, maybe you can help us find her.
00:16I investigated the murder of Frank Paris and the evidence against Stefan Leonida was overwhelming.
00:21We found the body of Cecily Gerard in Woodland, not far from here.
00:24She'd been strangled, just like the actress in that book of yours.
00:27Sometime between 6.28, 6.38 in the evening, she called her physician, Dr. Leonard Collins.
00:33He drove straight round, but by the time he arrived, she was dead.
00:36You murdered her. Yes, I strangled her in the bedroom.
00:40I do not believe John Spencer took his own life.
00:43If he didn't kill Melissa Jameson, who did?
00:45Dr. Collins, of course.
00:47Who in the blazes killed John Spencer?
00:49The person who killed John Spencer was me.
00:57♪♪
01:28So, what did you think?
01:30I told you in my email, I loved it.
01:32But what did you think? I assume you have notes.
01:34Of course I have notes.
01:36Tell me, Susan, do you ever read a book for pleasure?
01:39I read lots of books for pleasure, Alan, including yours, especially yours.
01:44But that's not why I'm here.
01:46Well, if you're going to start laying into me, I'd better have a drink.
01:49We'll have a bottle of the Cabernet Saint-Julien.
01:52Of course, sir.
01:54I hope that's all right.
01:56Yeah, it's fine. I won't be joining you. I have to work this afternoon.
01:59I wasn't planning to share it.
02:03You know, Alan, we're both on the same side.
02:06I just want the book to be as good as it can be.
02:09And I don't.
02:11You're a brilliant writer. You're the best mystery writer in the business.
02:15Yes, that's what the mail said.
02:17Yes, and we put it on the cover.
02:19Look, I know that you find edits boring,
02:22but it really is worth going the extra mile.
02:25So tell me what's wrong. Did you guess the ending?
02:28No! I never do.
02:30Well, that's something.
02:32I have four headline notes, and I'm sure you can deal with them very easily.
02:37So can I go ahead?
02:38Be my guest.
02:39Well, first of all...
02:43..I found some of the characters a little unsympathetic.
02:47In what way?
02:49Well, let's start with Eric Chandler, who works for Melissa James.
02:54The way you've written him, he's very unattractive.
02:58He can't look after himself, he's a peeping Tom, and he still reads comics.
03:04I'm not sure I see the problem.
03:06And since you mention it, the comic is a clue.
03:11Really? I don't think you ever explain that.
03:14Some clues aren't meant to be explained.
03:17I just worry there's a possibility some modern readers might find him distasteful.
03:22Well, modern readers can read something else.
03:25Right, OK, well, we don't need to argue about that now.
03:28Let's move on.
03:30Yeah.
03:31I'm not sure it's a good idea to mix real people with the characters in your book.
03:36Such as?
03:37Burt Lahr, for example, the actor in The Wizard Of Oz.
03:41You make a point of describing a signed poster of the film that's hanging in her house,
03:46and I just worry that it confuses two worlds, reality and fiction.
03:51That's another clue, Susan.
03:54Well, you don't explain that one either.
03:56That's right.
03:57Sir? Yes, yes, just pour it. And as soon as you can, I'm beginning to need it.
04:02I only have two more notes, and they both relate to the last scene.
04:06The solution?
04:07Yeah.
04:09Um, I just wonder if you need to assemble so many of the characters when Dr Collins is revealed to be the killer.
04:16I mean, Oscar Berlin doesn't really have anything to do.
04:19But I thought you loved that sort of thing. Classic Agatha Christie.
04:22Well, in that case, why leave out the hotel owners?
04:26Lance and Maureen Gardner, surely it should be all or nothing.
04:30I'll think about it.
04:32But here's my biggest note.
04:35The way you've constructed it, Dr Collins is unmasked, which is great.
04:40And then Atticus Poon says that he was the person who killed John Spencer, which I loved.
04:47So what's the problem?
04:49You make us wait a whole chapter before you explain what he means.
04:52I just think it would be so much better if it all happened at the same time.
04:57I disagree. I like the suspense.
05:05So, what do we do now?
05:35And, could you just give us some room?
06:05Thanking you.
06:11Come on, Mr Poon. What were you talking about back there?
06:14You didn't kill John Spencer. We all know that.
06:17What did you mean?
06:19I should not have taken this case, Detective Inspector.
06:23I was asked to by a man who called himself Edgar Schultz and claimed to be an agent from New York.
06:29Claimed to be?
06:30Oh yes, Miss Kane, but whatever else he was, he was not an American.
06:37I told you that his timing was of interest to me.
06:41Yes, I did wonder about that.
06:43Oh, it's very simple.
06:45He claimed to have called you from the Savoy Hotel in London the morning before.
06:49This would have been the same day that he learned of the death of his client.
06:52He wasn't very upset.
06:54Perhaps, but the flight from Idlewild Airport would have taken at least ten hours.
06:59He could not possibly have travelled in that time.
07:02This may have been all my fault, Mr Poon. Maybe I misheard him.
07:05But I did not.
07:07And there was something about the way he spoke.
07:10She was injured during the shooting of a movie with Hitchcock five years ago.
07:15And then moved to somewhere called Tolly in Devonshire.
07:19Is that right?
07:21It would seem to me that a New Yorker would be much more likely to say some place rather than somewhere.
07:27But then the accent, it already sounded forced to me.
07:30It was the accent of someone pretending to be an American.
07:34So he was a fake?
07:37Why?
07:38Because somebody very much wanted me to investigate the death of Melissa James.
07:46And that somebody was you.
07:53I'm sorry, Mr Pund.
07:56I have no idea what you're getting at.
07:58I thought it would be very good for your profile.
08:01Yes, that's what you said.
08:02But the true reason is that you were infatuated with her.
08:08You're a great fan of her films, no?
08:13Yes, I liked them.
08:14No, it was more than that. More than once you revealed an intimate knowledge of her work.
08:20A lot of the furniture came from the Mary Celeste.
08:23The ship that disappeared.
08:24And the title of Melissa James' second film.
08:27Oh, look at this.
08:29That's a prop from one of her films.
08:31A Turkish dagger.
08:33It's a wicked looking thing.
08:35You knew what it was because you'd seen the film.
08:40And you could not contain your excitement at visiting the home of its star.
08:46Oh, what a gorgeous house.
08:50But it was a nice house.
08:51It was a nice house.
08:52You persuaded me to take the case, Miss Kane.
08:55You hired the actor who played Edgar Schultz because you wanted to enter the world of Melissa James.
09:03Break a leg.
09:05Fire, darling.
09:10You were her greatest fan, which you made clear when you wrote to her.
09:15How can you do it, dear Miss James?
09:17The screen is diminished without you.
09:19A light has gone out of our lives.
09:23Oh, yes.
09:24I saw the letter to her written in your hand.
09:28Presumably one of many you had written to Melissa James before you made that clumsy attempt to conceal it.
09:35Because, of course, you knew that I would recognize your handwriting.
09:40Wait a minute.
09:42Are you saying that she killed John Spencer?
09:46That is exactly what I am saying.
09:50And as I am the one who bought her here, it is I who am to blame.
09:54What have you got to say, Miss Kane?
09:55I'm not saying anything.
09:57Why? Why would she do it?
09:59Oh, you don't remember?
10:01She told us herself when we had dinner.
10:03To think someone could kill a woman as talented as Melissa James and get away with it.
10:08I hope they hang.
10:10I'd say that's unlikely, Miss Kane.
10:13You loved her.
10:15You loved her films.
10:16She was everything to you.
10:18And you could not bear that the man who killed her was still alive when she was dead.
10:23Yes.
10:25But it was his fault.
10:27John Spencer.
10:29He said he'd killed her.
10:32But that did not give you the right to act both as his judge and his executioner.
10:38Wait a minute.
10:39What exactly happened at Clarence Cape?
10:41Who was at the window?
10:43Oh, that was Eric Chandler.
10:47The police had come to the house and he was concerned that they were discussing his own misdemeanors.
10:52So he decided to eavesdrop on what was taking place in the living room.
11:01He had a bank of rights and he confessed. You can't argue with that.
11:04Mr. Pund!
11:09You will recall that the back door to the kitchen was only a short distance away.
11:13And that was how Eric was able to disappear so quickly.
11:17For once his mother tried to protect him.
11:21Has anyone come in here?
11:23No, sir. We've been here all the time.
11:27But I saw there was mud on his shoes.
11:32With everyone distracted, that gave Miss Kane the perfect moment to seize her opportunity.
11:44Oh!
12:01I'm so sorry, Mr. Pund.
12:03Sorry?
12:08That you committed a terrible crime?
12:10Or that when you killed John Spencer you had chosen the wrong person?
12:16Well, both really.
12:36I will be giving you my notice, Mr. Pund.
12:40With immediate effect.
12:46I accept your resignation.
13:57It's too early. Tell them to go away.
13:59You stay there.
14:05Morning.
14:06Morning.
14:07This came for you.
14:08Thanks, Derek.
14:10What is it?
14:13It's from Craig Andrews.
14:15Don't open it.
14:18My phone.
14:21No note.
14:23I'm sorry I mistrusted you.
14:26If you remember, I once accused you of being a killer.
14:30Well, it's true.
14:32I guess we're even.
14:36Susan, listen to me.
14:37I'm staying here with you.
14:38I'm coming back to Creighton.
14:41You don't want to run a hotel.
14:43I should have seen that.
14:44We have the money.
14:45We can fix the hotel.
14:47I just need a bit more time here.
14:50The book was my idea.
14:52I started all this.
14:55And now I'm going to finish it.
15:08Did you enjoy your breakfast?
15:10Very much.
15:12We'd like to arrange a late check-out.
15:14Are you serious?
15:15Yes.
15:16Oh, sorry.
15:17You haven't met my partner, Andreas.
15:19You see, the thing is we have quite a long drive today.
15:21We're going to Norfolk to see Stefan.
15:24So you've got permission to see him in jail?
15:26Yes.
15:27Someone I know arranged it.
15:29Oh.
15:30Well, that's good.
15:31I'm sure you'll like it.
15:34Yes, someone I know arranged it.
15:36Oh.
15:37What do you think he can possibly tell you?
15:40Well, one thing I'd be quite interested to know
15:43is what it was like being forced to have sex with you.
15:47How dare you.
15:48Who told you that?
15:49You fired him because he refused to go on with it.
15:52He rejected you.
15:53He'd had enough.
15:54I fired him because he's a thief.
15:56No.
15:57That was Natasha, the maid who found the body.
15:59Everyone knows that.
16:00Anyway, let's see what Stefan has to say.
16:02Well, what difference does it make?
16:03He confessed.
16:04He's a convicted murderer.
16:05Well, actually, I don't believe he did kill Frank Paris,
16:07and I'm going to prove it.
16:09Oh.
16:10I take it that's a yes on the late check-out, huh?
16:21How far is the prison?
16:23It's about 60 miles.
16:26Are you sure you want to come?
16:27I'm afraid you're going to have to wait outside when we get there.
16:29I've only got entry for one.
16:31That's all right.
16:33I'll make sure nobody steals the car.
16:35I think all the thieves are locked up inside.
16:38You never know.
16:40God, I've missed you.
16:53Name?
16:54Susan Ryland.
16:55I'm visiting Stefan Leonido.
16:58ID?
17:02Oh.
17:10Thanks.
17:13Oh, thank you.
17:32Oh.
17:37Why should I talk to you?
17:39I heard on the news Cecilie de Hearn is dead.
17:42Don't you want to know who killed her?
17:44You know who killed her.
17:47And who was that?
17:48The same person who killed Frank Paris.
17:51Cecilie wrote to me just a few weeks ago.
17:54She said she'd read a book, a detective story.
17:57She said she knew I was innocent.
17:59Do you have the letter?
18:01I tore it up.
18:03I published that book, Stefan.
18:06Atticus Pund takes the case. It was written by a man called Alan Conway.
18:12You never met him?
18:13He asked to meet me.
18:15I refused.
18:17If you didn't kill Frank Paris, why did you confess?
18:22Why do you think?
18:24I don't know.
18:26Because I'm an immigrant?
18:29Even though I came to this country when I was six years old?
18:33Because I'm nobody?
18:35Because I have a criminal record?
18:38There was a lot of evidence against you.
18:41Yes.
18:43But I was asleep all night.
18:45There was a party.
18:46Maybe I drank too much wine.
18:48How much?
18:49One glass, two.
18:51But it knocked me out.
18:54The next thing I knew, the policeman was in my room.
18:57Detective Superintendent Locke?
19:01He was the bastard who told me to confess.
19:04I had no chance, but if I pleaded guilty, they would go easier on me.
19:08That was what he said.
19:09Easier?
19:11Life with a minimum of 20 years.
19:14I should have never listened to him.
19:19The one brightness in my life, the one dawn that gives me hope, has been taken from me.
19:26Tell me about Lisa.
19:31She's evil.
19:32She's a devil.
19:33You're having a relationship with her.
19:35Not a relationship.
19:37Sex.
19:39She threatened you.
19:40Why else do you think someone like me would sleep with someone like her?
19:44And when I finally refused, she fired me.
19:47When was that?
19:48A month before the wedding.
19:50Look.
19:52There's something I don't understand then.
19:56Two weeks later, you were still seeing her.
19:59Who told you that?
20:01You were seen in the woods.
20:04Liam Corby?
20:05Yeah.
20:11I'm sorry.
20:13I'm sorry.
20:15I'm sorry.
20:17I'm sorry.
20:19I'm sorry.
20:24That was the last time I saw her.
20:27But if I gave her what she wanted, she would give me my job back.
20:37She didn't.
20:38I told you.
20:39She's evil.
20:44He was lying.
20:46When?
20:49At the very end, when I asked him why he went back with Lisa, he hesitated.
20:55He's hiding something.
20:58It's like he's protecting somebody.
21:00And then all that stuff about the one brightness in my life.
21:04The dawn that has been taken from me.
21:06What did he mean by that?
21:08Well, you should have asked him.
21:10Yeah, a bit late now.
21:14Can we stop for a drink?
21:17Well, I'm driving.
21:19But I'm not.
21:38I'll get the grease.
21:39How much are you having?
21:42Lemonade, please.
21:44I'll be right back.
21:54You have found what you are looking for?
21:58I thought I might have a message from my sister.
22:01I'm not referring to the device in your hand.
22:03I'm thinking of the investigation.
22:05Oh, it's hopeless.
22:06I've asked a thousand questions and I still don't have any answers.
22:09But you have many, many answers.
22:12That's how it works for the detective.
22:14I'm not a detective.
22:15You have so much that is in your head.
22:18Truth, lies, half-lies, misdirection.
22:21But suddenly you see something which may seem to have no relevance,
22:25but it untangles everything.
22:27And at once you have total clarity.
22:32See what?
22:34Could be anything.
22:36A magpie, a moonflower.
22:40Moonflower?
22:43The name of this public house, for example?
22:53Plough and stars.
22:57Plough and stars?
22:59Why should that...?
23:07Scissors.
23:11I'll get the drinks, Andreas.
23:13We've got to go.
23:36Why won't you take note for an answer?
23:38We don't want to see you.
23:39Yes, you do.
23:40You can talk to me or you can talk to the police.
23:42It's your choice.
23:50The first time I came here, you did something very strange.
23:54You answered my questions in a way that made you seem more suspicious,
23:59more likely to have murdered Frank Paris.
24:04I don't know what you're talking about.
24:06You told me how much you loved this house and how awful it would have been
24:10if you'd been forced to sell it.
24:12In other words, what you were really saying was you had every reason to kill him.
24:17That was your assumption.
24:18Just as you were happy to admit that you'd argued with Cecily Traherne.
24:21I mean, you could have denied that. You didn't even try.
24:23Martin had nothing to do with either of their deaths.
24:26No, I know he didn't. No, he's not a killer.
24:29He's a pathetic fantasist pretending to be a killer.
24:33And why would I do that?
24:36Well, let me think about that.
24:39Let's imagine that you were trapped in an entirely loveless marriage
24:44with a wife who bullied you and made you feel small about yourself.
24:47Get out of my house!
24:48I haven't finished yet.
24:50He wanted you to think he had the balls to kill your brother.
24:52So it's all been a charade?
24:56Trying to make me understand the motive and spelling it all out
25:00and that business with the car. Did he tell you about that?
25:02Yes, I bet he did.
25:03Trying to scare me off made him look like a man, but it hasn't worked.
25:07He's been lying as much to you as he has been to me, and that's why I'm here.
25:12I want you to know he's not a killer.
25:16He's just a pathetic creep.
25:22That felt good.
25:23I was impressed.
25:24How are you so sure he didn't kill Frank Harris?
25:26Because I know who did.
25:33Come on.
25:46Let's finish the job, then we can go.
25:48Where to?
25:50Home.
25:52And where is that?
25:54Crete, the Trifoli.
25:56Susan, I don't want you to do anything you don't want to do.
26:01No, I'm not going to have to. There's something I haven't told you.
26:06Nathan Parker came through.
26:08Who?
26:09Parker Chance Books. I told you I was seeing them. He's CEO.
26:12And?
26:14Well, I thought the interview had gone really terribly,
26:17but apparently he was impressed by my frankness and he's offered me a job.
26:32Andreas, it's freelance.
26:36I'm like an editor at large.
26:40I can work from Crete and pay somebody else to unblock the drains.
26:45Well, but that's...
26:46Yeah, no, it's perfect. So, Ella, Ella.
26:51I'm still not at all sure about this.
26:53A solution?
26:54No, all these people.
26:56It's exactly the kind of thing I told Alan Conway not to do in his books.
27:00He'll be fine.
27:05You go ahead. I'll be right with you.
27:07I didn't expect to see you here.
27:16Are you coming in?
27:17Oh, with your permission.
27:19I thought you might appreciate a little support.
27:23I'd love it.
27:31It is clear now that Stefan Leonida did not kill Frank Paris.
27:38Cecily knew the truth and it was that which put her own life in danger.
27:43You'd better know what you're talking about, Miss Ryland.
27:46I've only agreed to be here because...
27:47Oh, you're here because you were wrong, Detective Superintendent.
27:51You've always been wrong and somewhere inside you, you knew it.
27:55Do you know who killed Cecily?
27:57Yes, I do.
27:58Then tell me.
27:59You have to tell me. I can't stand any more of this.
28:04We have to start with the night before the wedding,
28:07the night Frank Paris was murdered,
28:09to see how Stefan was framed because that's what happened.
28:13That was the plan all along.
28:16It began with the dog barking.
28:21What's that got to do with anything?
28:23It's the reason Derek went upstairs.
28:28I noticed a brooch in the display on the landing.
28:32Forget it.
28:33I believe someone jabbed it into the dog to make it bark
28:37and that drew Derek upstairs to the landing just in time
28:41to see someone who looked like Stefan.
28:44Stefan?
28:47On his way to room 12, the room occupied by Frank Paris.
28:52But it wasn't Stefan.
28:54No, Derek. It was Leo.
28:57Who's Leo?
28:59Leo was a male escort working in London.
29:03Frank Paris was a client of his
29:06and Alan's book is dedicated to both of them.
29:10For Frank and Leo in remembrance.
29:15Cecily said the killer was named in the book.
29:18There it is.
29:21So what do we know about Leo?
29:23Well, only what James Taylor,
29:26who was a friend of Alan Conway's, told me in London.
29:29I have a feeling he was Australian.
29:32Alan made a joke about him once.
29:34He said Leo had just got back from Melbourne
29:36so he was probably in bed with jet lag.
29:40What are you looking at me for?
29:42I've got nothing to do with it. I've never met any of these people.
29:45Leo was doing what he did,
29:47living as a sex worker because he wanted money
29:50and he must have been here when Alan came to the hotel.
29:53Why else would he have been in the book?
29:55But Leo is not just a name.
29:58But Leo is not just a name.
30:00It suddenly occurred to me
30:02when I was in a pub in Norfolk just this morning.
30:05The Plough and Stars.
30:06Exactly.
30:07Leo is a star sign.
30:10And when you remember that,
30:12everything clicks into place.
30:16Cecily believed in all of that, didn't she?
30:19Astrology and horoscopes.
30:21Well, you told me.
30:23Absolutely.
30:24She read it every day.
30:26And then there was the pendant that she liked to wear,
30:29an amulet with three stars and an arrow.
30:32That happens to be the star sign for Sagittarius.
30:36When was her birthday?
30:37December the 10th.
30:40How about you, Aidan?
30:45August 16th.
30:47Leo.
30:51That tattoo on your shoulder,
30:54it's a glyph, isn't it?
30:56A symbol that denotes a constellation.
30:59I half noticed it when I saw the photograph in your home, Aidan,
31:03but it was only later that I realised its significance.
31:07It's shorthand for a lion's head and tail.
31:11Leo, again.
31:13According to all of the books,
31:16Leo and Sagittarius are highly compatible,
31:20which is exactly what Cecily said when she spoke at her wedding.
31:24So you're saying I worked in London as a male escort
31:28and that I was called Leo?
31:30Yes.
31:31That is rubbish. I was an estate agent.
31:33And I'm not Australian. I've never been to Australia in my life.
31:36Ah, well, Alan said that Leo was jet-lagged travelling from Melbourne,
31:40but he said it as a joke. Why was that?
31:43Well, it only becomes a joke if it isn't Melbourne, Australia,
31:47but somewhere much closer.
31:49There's a town called Melbourne in South Derbyshire.
31:52Your mother came from Derbyshire?
31:54You even said so in your speech.
31:56And I just want to say to my mum,
31:59I'm so glad that you were able to come all the way down from Derbyshire today.
32:04You, Leo?
32:06Got it in one, Detective Superintendent.
32:10He met Cecily and he married her because he wanted all of this.
32:15It's not true.
32:17And you got it. You got it.
32:19A new life, money, a bright future,
32:23and you'd escaped your sordid past.
32:27But then the worst possible stroke of luck.
32:34On the eve of the wedding,
32:36Harris checks in to the hotel and, of course, he recognises you.
32:41You might have something in the moonflower wing.
32:47This is all lies.
32:49One moment he's all sullen and sniffy about his room,
32:52the next he all smiles because he's already worked out what he's going to do.
32:56The opera.
32:58And this is when we get to the marriage of Figaro.
33:01Frank said he was going to see the opera that night,
33:04but it wasn't on.
33:05And Alan put it into his book, too.
33:08Why?
33:09It has a wedding in it.
33:11It's more than that, Lawrence.
33:13It's what this whole thing has been about.
33:18Control.
33:22The opera's a comedy. It's about a couple getting married.
33:25The villain is an aristocrat
33:27who tries to force one of them to sleep with him on their wedding night.
33:31You're saying that...
33:32Frank Harris knew the opera
33:34and when he bumped into Aidan, quite by chance,
33:38on the eve of his wedding, he had a nasty idea.
33:42He would do exactly the same thing to Aidan.
33:47Frank recognised him.
33:50He knew Aidan's past
33:53and that gave him complete power.
33:56He would force Aidan to have sex with him.
34:02MUSIC CONTINUES
34:08So, why did Alan Conway put the opera in his book?
34:12Well, Alan knew Frank well,
34:14so he must have guessed what happened
34:18and included the marriage of Figaro as a clue.
34:21My wife was found dead yesterday.
34:23I was in love with her.
34:25I don't have to listen to any more of this.
34:27No, I think you do.
34:28He even pretended that his key was broken
34:31and he passed it to you right in front of your wife-to-be.
34:35This is for you. It's not working.
34:38The key for you to come to his room later that night.
34:42But he didn't realise you'd decided you weren't going to play his game.
34:48He was a danger to you.
34:54You were going to get rid of him.
34:56You also decided that you were going to frame Stefan.
35:01He must have known about his gambling debts.
35:05So you made sure he didn't wake up that night.
35:10Maybe I drank too much wine and it knocked me out.
35:14So you drugged him.
35:16Cecily was taking sleeping pills.
35:18That's what knocked him out, not the alcohol.
35:21And then when midnight came, you dressed up as Stefan,
35:25you carried his toolbox, but first you made sure you'd have a witness.
35:56It would have only taken you a few seconds to get into room 12.
36:01And then?
36:03And then you hammered Frank Paris to death.
36:07No, I would advise you not to say anything, Mr MacNeil.
36:10You listen to what she has to say.
36:12Thank you, Detective Superintendent, but that wasn't the end of it.
36:16It would have been easy for you to get into Stefan's room.
36:19Presumably you had a master key or maybe you just took his.
36:26You hid the money that you'd found in Frank Paris's wallet.
36:32And you left bloodstains using the fountain pen that you'd stolen from Cecily.
36:56This is all crazy. Stefan was my friend.
37:00That's not true either.
37:02He may have been once,
37:04but not once you found out that he was having a relationship with your wife.
37:08What?
37:11Yes, I'm sorry to break it to you, Lawrence, and to you, Pauline.
37:16Cecily was always fond of Stefan. They were always so close.
37:20I mean, it's possible the only time you were close to him
37:23I mean, it's possible the affair started long before she met Aidan.
37:29But of course she had to keep it from you.
37:33He was an immigrant. He had a criminal record.
37:37It was Cecily. In the wood.
37:41Yes, that's right, Liam.
37:44You assumed it was Stefan and Lisa.
37:47It never occurred to you that he might be involved with both sisters.
37:54No.
38:01That's the real reason you fired him, isn't it, Lisa?
38:05You found out?
38:07I don't believe it. I won't believe it.
38:09Cecily wasn't like that.
38:11I'm afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes, Lawrence.
38:15Your granddaughter, Roxana.
38:18Does she look anything like Aidan?
38:21Or does she remind you of someone else?
38:23Stefan, oh my God!
38:27He spent seven years in jail because of you!
38:30He confessed!
38:31Yes, he confessed because you made him confess, and you're going to have to live with that.
38:37But even now,
38:40he's protecting Cecily.
38:44He didn't tell me the truth, but he said something quite strange.
38:50The one brightness in my life,
38:53the one dawn that gives me hope has been taken from me.
39:01Cecily chose the name of her child.
39:05Roxana is quite a common name in Romanian.
39:10It means brightness.
39:14Or dawn.
39:21At least there's one good thing that's left out of all this.
39:26I hope it's a consolation to you.
39:31You killed Cecily!
39:35You took her to the woods and you strangled her!
39:47I didn't want to.
39:51I loved her.
39:55I tried to love her.
39:59But she saw something in that stupid, stupid book.
40:04And she was going to tell.
40:08You're an evil man.
40:11You are a wicked, evil man!
40:21I really do think it is goodbye this time.
40:25Watching you, it was a masterclass, Susan.
40:30You certainly have no need of me. And yet...
40:34What?
40:36Alan Conway, he dedicated his book to Frank and Leo.
40:40He also drew on the marriage of Philip and Cecily.
40:44And I think it's a good thing.
40:46He dedicated his book to Frank and Leo.
40:49He also drew on the marriage of Figaro, but...
40:52I wonder...
40:55Go on.
40:56Are you sure there isn't something else you've missed?
41:16I'm sorry.
41:39What do you think? It's the new menu.
41:42Oh!
41:44Looks good!
41:46And good news, we've had a cancellation.
41:48When?
41:49First two weeks of September, two rooms.
41:51Fantastic, I'll let Katie know.
41:53It'll be lovely to have her here.
41:55What are you doing?
41:57I'm just worried that I've missed something.
41:59Susan.
42:01Cecily was found.
42:03Aidan is going to spend the rest of his life in prison.
42:05Stefan is back with his daughter. You solved it all.
42:08And you even got paid. So what else is there?
42:10Something.
42:12I don't know.
42:43In there!
43:02Are you coming to bed?
43:04A minute.
43:06It's almost midnight.
43:08Oh!
43:10There's got to be something.
43:12An anagram.
43:14A play on words.
43:16Something hidden.
43:18It's going to drive you mad.
43:20If it doesn't drive you mad, it's going to drive me mad.
43:23Come to bed.
43:38I've got it.
43:57All right?
44:07Tell me.
44:10Alan wanted us to know that the killer was Leo.
44:15Leo was also a star sign.
44:18So, that's what he did.
44:21He filled the book with lines.
44:23Go on.
44:25Well, first of all, there was the pub at Torley.
44:29Then there was Oscar Berlin.
44:32It is the work of almost three years, Melissa.
44:34With his script.
44:36It was all about Richard the Lionheart.
44:42The comic that Eric read was The Lion.
44:46Alan told me that was a clue.
44:48That was why he insisted on Bert Lahr.
44:51He plays the cowardly lion in The Wizard of Oz.
44:56The stained glass window in the Church of St. Daniel.
45:00The lion's den.
45:01Yeah. And, most of all, Algernon's number plate.
45:06That really said it all.
45:09It goes on and on, and I've probably missed half of them,
45:13but that was his secret message.
45:16There were lots of lions.
45:18So, that's it. It's over.
45:22Yeah, maybe.
45:24But, you know, Alan, there might be something else.
45:28There's nothing else. It's enough.
45:30Please, Susan, don't be angry with me, but it's time to finish with all this.
45:35I think you've allowed Alan Conway to do enough damage to your life.
45:40You might be right.
45:42Of course I'm right. I want you to forget about all this.
45:45And come out with me tonight.
45:48Well, we're going.
46:00The Psikhros Cave.
46:03It's also known as the Cave of Zeus, because they say he was born here.
46:11Why have you brought me here, Andres?
46:15Because it's one of the most beautiful places in Crete.
46:21And I think you've had the best time of your life.
46:29With your head so buried in Alan's books, his documents, his life,
46:34that you've forgotten about the moon and the stars.
46:41You're a true romantic.
46:44I'm Greek. We're all romantic.
46:55I've brought something with me.
46:59I thought I might need it.
47:01What is it?
47:03It's everything that James gave me.
47:07And all my notes from Branlow Hall.
47:13I don't need them.
47:15Are you sure?
47:17I've never been so sure of anything in all my life.
47:21Then let's make an offering to the gods.
47:24To thank them for bringing us back together.
47:28And to release you from the dark shadows.
47:31The memories of what we've left behind.
47:40An offering to the gods.
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